Issue 5, 2009
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Soft Matter

Self-assembly of drug-loaded liposomes on genetically engineered proteinnanotubes: a potential anti-cancer drug delivery vector†

Pascaline Ngweniform,a   Dong Lia  and  Chuanbin Mao*a  

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a Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 620 Parrington Oval, Room 208, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA
E-mail: cbmao@ou.edu
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Abstract

Cationic liposomes loaded with a model drug (zinc phthalocyanine, ZnPc) for photodynamic cancer therapy can be electrostatically assembled on anionic flagellar protein nanotubes that can be displayed with cancer cell-targeting peptides.

Graphical abstract: Self-assembly of drug-loaded liposomes on genetically engineered protein nanotubes: a potential anti-cancer drug delivery vector

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B817863A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Oct 2008
Accepted
18 Dec 2008
First published
02 Feb 2009

Soft Matter, 2009,5, 954-956

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Self-assembly of drug-loaded liposomes on genetically engineered protein nanotubes: a potential anti-cancer drug delivery vector

P. Ngweniform, D. Li and C. Mao, Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 954 DOI: 10.1039/B817863A

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